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Listening to Carl Craig’s February 2011 Essential Mix, on BBC Radio 1, I am reminded of the quiet of a busy dance floor. Sometimes, when everyone has totally gotten into the groove of the tracks (eg of a long track, after trust has been established between the DJ and the dancers), there is only the [...]

I always wondered whether anyone listened to, cared about, or even heard, Barabara Tucker’s message in this song. Fitting her background in gospel, and her religious convictions, she is talking about beauty being only skin-deep, that the important thing is how you are within. But is that what anyone on the dance floors heard, or [...]

From the guy who created my most favourite, most memorable house remix: Sade’s By Your Side (Ben Watt remix). His line at the beginning of this video is another gem: Sometimes you need to get back to the sweatbox. The low ceiling. The minimal lighting. To put you back in touch with the music and [...]

(This is an old post which I have dug up from the old Anar Green blog.) As I’ve said on another blog, I like video confessionals on youtube. Some get really personal. The It Gets Better videos are a prime example of this, and they are fascinating to watch. They remind me of when I [...]

New Vogue dance, in all its knee-popping, duck-walking glory. jayon922 does not seem to be around anymore, so I can no longer find some of the old videos which introduced me to this sub-culture. But there are lots others around, if you want to see how this dance style has evolved recently. The Luna Show [...]

One of the best things about the contemporary prevalence of digital cameras is that underground scenes get to leave behind a visual record. Till the late Nineties, it was very hard to find much video footage of fringe scenes/nightlife. Even the rave scene barely has much. (Of course, older scenes suffered even more. Even the [...]

I know it’s a bit of a sacrilege to say, but, for me, it was Kode9‘s mix of Burial’s 2nd that did it. The EP itself did not get the replays I’d expected!…You love your first love the most! When I first heard this, chills ran down my spine. I thought it was the beer, [...]

Gilles Peterson is to leave BBC Radio 1 in “a few months”. Great, first Mary Anne Hobbs left, and now Gilles. What else is left, Benji B? I need a streaming show that plays non-sucky music. Is that really too much to ask! There are lots of assorted sites where I can find tracks and [...]